This is just a case of a teacher twisting the rules in her favor to get a 2 day break from a kid she doesn't like and setting up the scaffolding for labeling him as a 'problem child' so he will be easier to deal with later.

I'm sure this happens a lot more than we realize, but when the teacher marches the student to the principle, the principle asks the teacher if she (it's almost always a she) is a complete moron. Thus, it never makes the news.

In middle school (pre-Columbine), I had ADHD and doodled a lot. I was trying to draw driftwood sign but didn't finish it, and I was was accused of drawing a gun. I asked when did guns start being perched on stick? I ended up having a parent teacher conference. I apologized for being off task with my artwork and promised to finish what I started next time and not go back to doing actual school work. My dad could hardly contain his laughter.

Tell me again why school choice or home schooling is bad giving giving the alternative?

I don't how much money we dump into government run education (Washington D.C. is a good example) it is not going to get better. Yet there are those who insist that people not be allowed an alternative.

The left calls abortion a choice and some want tax dollars to made available for it yet using tax dollars for a choice in education is not to be allowed.

anyone else get the feeling that a decade or so from now were going to have tons of people afraid to do anything at all from years of getting in trouble in school over stupid harmless crap like this in their formative years?

Dafatone:GF named my left testicle thundercles: little boys will turn anything into a gun. it is normal and healthy. this has become an attack on masculinity itself

Little boys WILL turn anything into a gun.

That being said, it's a little creepy to define this as "masculinity itself."

sorry dude, but men spent the last 200,000 years of human history, feeding their families, defending themselves, attacking competing groups, and being chosen to carry on their genetic legacy through the creation and employment of weapons. I dont know anything about you, but when i pick up a weapon it is an amazing experience. I can feel its weight.. its power... and it feels good. It feels like my body and mind have been specifically shaped to wield it. and that feeling is a perfect reflection of the truth.

GF named my left testicle thundercles:Dafatone: GF named my left testicle thundercles: little boys will turn anything into a gun. it is normal and healthy. this has become an attack on masculinity itself

Little boys WILL turn anything into a gun.

That being said, it's a little creepy to define this as "masculinity itself."

sorry dude, but men spent the last 200,000 years of human history, feeding their families, defending themselves, attacking competing groups, and being chosen to carry on their genetic legacy through the creation and employment of weapons. I dont know anything about you, but when i pick up a weapon it is an amazing experience. I can feel its weight.. its power... and it feels good. It feels like my body and mind have been specifically shaped to wield it. and that feeling is a perfect reflection of the truth.

I'd like to think there's more to masculinity. I could be wrong.

How's this sound? It's a little creepy that masculinity can be defined through weapons.

goodole312:anyone else get the feeling that a decade or so from now were going to have tons of people afraid to do anything at all from years of getting in trouble in school over stupid harmless crap like this in their formative years?

Dafatone:GF named my left testicle thundercles: little boys will turn anything into a gun. it is normal and healthy. this has become an attack on masculinity itself

Little boys WILL turn anything into a gun.

That being said, it's a little creepy to define this as "masculinity itself."

Punishing children for harmless behavior which is disproportionately displayed by and associated with boys actually fits that bill fairly well. The equivalent for girls would be something like punishment for hugging, but that would be unfathomably ridicu--oh wait, they do that already. Let's just say zero-thought zero-responsibility "zero-tolerance" bullshiat is an attack on both children and reason.And it is all for the purpose of sparing school-employed cowards the responsibility of exercising good judgment. Anyone who supports a zero-tolerance policy has no business being around children at all, ever, let alone having anything to do with schools.

Monkeyfark Ridiculous:Punishing children for harmless behavior which is disproportionately displayed by and associated with boys actually fits that bill fairly well. The equivalent for girls would be something like punishment for hugging, but that would be unfathomably ridicu--oh wait, they do that already. Let's just say zero-thought zero-responsibility "zero-tolerance" bullshiat is an attack on both children and reason.And it is all for the purpose of sparing school-employed cowards the responsibility of exercising good judgment. Anyone who supports a zero-tolerance policy has no business being around children at all, ever, let alone having anything to do with schools.

Now now, we'll have none of that common sense and logic in this thread thank you very much.

GF named my left testicle thundercles:sorry dude, but men spent the last 200,000 years of human history, feeding their families, defending themselves, attacking competing groups, and being chosen to carry on their genetic legacy through the creation and employment of weapons.